THRUSH, White House correspondent: Why do you think Democrats feel the need to oppose Gorsuch? What do you think the politics is?

TRUMP: Well, I think that some of it had to do with the election. They thought they were going to win. You know, winning the Electoral College is, for a Republican, is close to impossible and I won it quite easily. And I think they are still recovering from that, but they are recovering now. I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story. I think it’s a massive, massive story. All over the world, I mean other than The New York Times.

Independent lawyer, self-help author, and journalist Mike Cernovich who broke the Susan Rice story initially said Haberman sat on the story. Cernovich said inside the newspaper snitches tipped him off about the story and how the Times spiked it.

So President Trump is trolling them. They got defensive about it. And he wants them on the defense because it allows him to be on the offense. He likes being on the offense. He's good at it.

Perhaps you have heard how offensive he can be.

So instead of Gorsuch, they focused on Obamagate:

TRUMP: Yeah, it’s a bigger story than you know. I think —

HABERMAN: You mean there’s more information that we’re not aware of?

TRUMP: I think that it’s going to be the biggest story.

THRUSH: Why? What do you think —

TRUMP: Take a look at what’s happening. I mean, first of all her performance was horrible yesterday on television even though she was interviewed by Hillary Clinton’s P.R. person, Andrea Mitchell [the NBC News journalist]. Course you’ve been accused of that also.

HABERMAN: Mostly by you, though.

TRUMP: No, no, no. Mostly by a lot of people. So you know, we’ll see what happens, but it looks like it’s breaking into a massive story.

THRUSH: What do you think are — what other shoes are there to drop on this?

HABERMAN: Yeah, what else could we learn on this?

TRUMP: I think you’re going to see a lot. I think you’ll see a lot.

"What other shoes are there to drop on this?"

This story has more shoes than Imelda Marcos.

TRUMP: I think it’s one of the biggest stories. The Russia story is a total hoax. There has been absolutely nothing coming out of that. But what, you know, what various things led into it was the story that we’re talking about, the Susan Rice. What’s happened is terrible. I’ve never seen people so indignant, including many Democrats who are friends of mine. I’ve never seen them acting this way. Because that’s really an affront on them, you know, they are talking about civil liberties. It’s such an affront, what took place.

THRUSH: What other people do you think will get ensnared in this? Can you give us a sense? How far this might extend —

HABERMAN: From the previous administration.

TRUMP: I think from the previous administration.

THRUSH: How far up do you think this goes? Chief of staff?

TRUMP: I don’t want to say, but —

THRUSH: President?

TRUMP: I don’t want to say, but you know who. You know what was going on. You probably know better than anybody. I mean, I frankly think The Times is missing a big thing by not writing it because you’re missing out on the biggest story there is.

Woodward and Bernstein had Deep Throat.

Haberman and Thrush have Deep Gloat.

Notice what has happened since that March 4 tweet. Barack Obama blew it off. The networks tried to show in their Sunday shows on March 5 that Trump with his tweet was losing it.

But Clapper and Comey went on those shows and had to admit that after months of investigation, they had nothing on Trump.

This kept the story moving. Democrats wanted the House Intelligence Committee to investigate President Trump.

The Democrats tried to make the story of Obama's spying on Trump about Nunes, but they soon realized all they accomplished was keeping the story alive.

Now the public knows they have been spying on Trump under the guise of investigating a Russian hacking of an election Democrats blew. Big time.

And with no evidence of anything untoward by Trump, Democrats were in trouble.

Which led to the unforced error of Evelyn Farkas going on MSNBC. Farkas was a deputy assistant something or other. She went on national TV to beg her colleagues to out Trump.

You would have thought a Ph.D would know how to work a telephone.

But it quickly got worse.

Rush Limbaugh did the timeline. He said Farkas left the Obama regime in September 2015, which means the spying on Trump began a year earlier than reported -- or she had access that information after she left, which is illegal.

Probably both.

Backs to the wall, Democrats wound up Susan Rice, and sent her to do damage control.

19 comments:

He baited the hook, with assistance from the Dems, and now he's chumming the waters. Dems thought they were the sharks. I believe Trump is THE big bad shark with the sharpest and most teeth in the ocean.

President Trump is certainly chumming the waters, but he isn't using a hook. He's using a big honkin' net and it's going to be so full of the rascals that he won't be able to get it on board. My suggestion would be either TNT or a strong electrical shock. - Elric

Earlier I said that the Dems had better back down as the best they could hope for was a Mexican standoff. They persisted, either stupidly, or possibly out of necessity (it is difficult sometimes to understand why people do the things they do without knowing further details of their positions--it could be that they pressed on not knowing what info Trump had, or did so in an attempt to brass it out, giving the impression that they had more ammo in the chamber than they had). I've seen the opinion elsewhere that Trump is going to simply continue to milk this as a way of increasing his leverage in DC, a reasonable assumption, given that proceeding with a spate of prosecutions now would delay other parts of his agenda, and use up, rather than increase, his store of political capital.I think he gets his SCOTUS pick now, begins challenging rogue liberal judges, goes back to negotiating on nhealth care and taxes, and only prosecutes as necessary when the evidence overwhelmingly recommends it to the public at large.

Well, Susan Rice is just a gofer for the O. That's who the real target is. Make no mistake. I've always believed that Trump had a better intelligence operation than the government. So, I figure he's fed enough cheese into the situation to catch​ a fat rat. Even so, there's no way this whole mess gets prosecuted. No way.

Watergate had the Republican DoJ indict 69 and convict 48 GOP operatives including 2 AGs. If the rule of law was followed, unlike with HRC, people will be indicted. But if the rule of law in this case fails, then, IMO, we face anarchy in our country. Why should anyone follow the rule of law if our "betters" won't, will be the attitude across the country. This would possibly be the cascading event that could destroy our country.

This is correct. Comey had Clinton in cuffs but never closed them because of intent, and he was right. Obama did in fact abuse the powers of his office but he will never pay because at least half the country believes he had the right motivation and so do 90% of the press. Trump should keep making allies among the voters by doing good for them, make his intentions their salvation, not waste his resources in any way that could be interpreted otherwise.

Comey said he couldn't prove intent so a jury would find an excuse to let her off. Obama intended to destroy the US but a PC jury or judge would never convict him even if he confessed. Prosecutors like to win cases because that is how they are judged. The country is so divided today crimes like Obama's and Clinton's will never be punished and the politicans know it.

Nunes stepped down as Intel Chair. Dummies in MSM, Dems and NeverTrump cabals are redoing at "getting a scalp" but are too short sighted to realize they just lost their ability to deflect from Rice by talking about Nunes.Same thing happened with the Flynn dismissal.

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